bug#39591: grep v3.4 after-context

2020-02-21 Thread Jim Meyering
tags 39591 + moreinfo stop On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:58 AM Adams, John wrote: > Recent greps do not behave as documented with respect to after-context. In > the past I've been accustomed to -AX meaning print X lines of after context. > That is not how gnu grep is working now, but it is how it

bug#39591: grep v3.4 after-context

2020-02-13 Thread Adams, John
Recent greps do not behave as documented with respect to after-context. In the past I've been accustomed to -AX meaning print X lines of after context. That is not how gnu grep is working now, but it is how it is documented. In fact -AX, which I tested with a v3.4 that I build on Ubuntu 18, w